An earthenware piece bearing a drawing of what might be a female shaman was uncovered during excavation work in western Japan, local officials announced. The discovery at the Shimizukaze ancient ...

Buried at a critical point in human history, the remains of a woman and various wild animals may suggest she played an important—and unexpected—spiritual role. The female 'shaman' was buried ...

A prehistoric human skeleton buried alongside a number of wild animal remains may represent the burial of a "shaman" who died ... the individual was an adult female, aged between 25 and 30 at ...

Tedlock's book, "The Woman in a Shaman's Body," also presents empirical studies that ... originally was the domain of women and that there still is a vital tradition of female shamanism in many parts ...

The Bad Dürrenberg shaman was one of the last of the Mesolithic hunter-gatherers who lived in Europe shortly before people adopted agriculture and became sedentary. She may have roamed a dense ...